[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 9c50523..63c020e 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
loff_t dcache_dir_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
- down(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_lock(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
switch (origin) {
case 1:
offset += file->f_pos;
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
if (offset >= 0)
break;
default:
- up(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (offset != file->f_pos) {
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
}
}
- up(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+ mutex_unlock(&file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
return offset;
}
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
/*
* No need to use i_size_read() here, the i_size
- * cannot change under us because we hold the i_sem.
+ * cannot change under us because we hold the i_mutex.
*/
if (pos > inode->i_size)
i_size_write(inode, pos);